The Hawaiʻi Life Styles (HLS) Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree focuses on particular Native Hawaiian occupations that supported a vibrant, sustainable, highly scientific, and spiritually balanced island population years prior to Westerm contact.

Upon Successful completion, students are prepared to:              

Demonstrate an awareness of and facilitate community     movement toward Hawaiian cultural understanding, the transmission, maintenance, practice, perpetuation and evolution of Hawaiian traditions.

Improve their employment and business opportunities, which are supported by a deep and relevant expertise in Hawaiian culture, as they venture into traditional and developmental career paths.

Articulate their knowledge of the technical, environmental, commercial, and educational implications and application of natives' cultural practices as it is appropriate to local and global concerns.

Apply authentic learning experiences from Hawaiian culture to one's life.

Improve self-identity through intra- and intersearch; this will improve the student's ability to be sensitive and respectful of all environments (social, natural, mythic, technological, and scientific).

Demonstrate a higher consciousness for the health of Hawaiʻi's physical environment and all of Hawaiʻi's native populations.